Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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He gave you a treasure and you despised it

Isaiah 42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace with me, and blind as Jehovah’s servant? 20 Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.

What is going on with Christians and the church? You claim the Bible is the word of God, are you listening to it? Are you looking at the things God tells you to look at? You say you are a servant of the Lord, a messenger with the good news of Jesus Christ. How can you be a messenger if you are deaf and blind?

21 It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

God gave us the word, the incarnated word, Jesus Christ, Lord of Lords and king of kings. This word makes us honorable. All who receive this word and treasure this word will be made honorable.

22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

Again, what is going on with the apostate church in the US. They reject the word of God and now appear like total idiots to the rest of the world. What is going on with "what gender do you associate with and what are your pronouns?" This is idiotic. Since when does a man get named "woman of the year"? Why do you have men competing against women in women's sports and changing in the women's locker rooms? You pay more money than other countries for your education and you have the worst schools in the world. Your cities are crime ridden and as dangerous as war zones. People walk into your country illegally by the millions.

23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come? 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

How do Christians not understand who did this? Enough with thinking "45" is going to save you. The Lord has given the apostate church for a spoil. The Lord comes as a thief in the night, you have been given over to robbers. You didn't sin against Trump, you sinned against the Lord Jesus. The world is on fire round about, how are Christians so clueless? This is evidence that they are not reading God's word, they are not in daily fellowship with the Lord, and they are befuddled by the worldly wine. That is why the Lord is pouring out the fierceness of His wrath on you, He gave you a treasure and you despised it.
 

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What was the time period In your words that America lost It's greatness?

Like any sin, it took place over a period of time with an opportunity to repent.

1. Assassination of JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., RFK, and Medgar Evers. These are events that must be properly investigated. It has become quite clear that they weren't, they were covered up, and we had a deep state growing like a cancer in our midst.

2. During Ronald Reagan's presidency it became clear that this cancer was growing and spreading with the Iran Contra affair.

3. 911 was an inside job revealing that the Satanists were in full control. The American people were mesmerized by their TV and high tech toys and were willing to just blame that event on "innocent" people (by that I mean innocent of that crime). However, there was still an opportunity to repent, but instead the US proclaimed they would "build back better" indicating a proud rebellion against God.

4. 2008 mortgage meltdown was a further indication of how utterly corrupt the whole system was from the bankers all the way to the politicians. Stealing homes from widows and the poor and claiming the criminals were too big to fail. If 911 was a plain and obvious warning from God that He would judge America, 2008 was his anger going white hot.

5. 2020 Pandemic -- 19 years after 911 and a very plain declaration that the judgement had begun. Still you see the brazen corruption, stealing an election, printing money like they won the lottery.

6. 2022 -- War in Ukraine, revelations concerning election fraud, revelations concerning the vaccine, revelations concerning Epstein, revelations concerning the Biden crime family -- this was the "writing on the wall" by the mysterious hand saying the US has been weighed in the balance and been found wanting.

7. There have been multiple warnings by prophets going all the way back to the 1980s. However the die is cast, the total destruction of the US in a single hour has already been set in motion at the command of God.
 

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Queen Elizabeth's reign and the terminal generation

Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; 36 and be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their lord, when he shall return from the marriage feast; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may straightway open unto him. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them.

This is only in Luke, it is not in Mark or Matthew. It is a very troubling verse. These are servants of the Lord. This cannot be referring to the Lord's marriage feast. That feast would be at the Father's house and the Lord is not going to tell the bride to wait while He makes a meal for the servants and serves them. So then what marriage feast is this that the Lord is likening it to a sign of His imminent return? This also cannot refer to the AntiChrist, he is revealed after the restrainer is taken out of the way. According to this the Lord is returning from a marriage feast late at night prior to the rapture.

It is especially significant that only Luke has this account. If Luke is a word to the church prior to the rapture, Mark is a word to the church during the 70th week and Matthew is a word to the Jews being saved at the end of the 70th week then this is one of those signs that we will see prior to the rapture, and in fact immediately prior.

I think this may refer to the death of Queen Elizabeth. She reigned for 70 years from 1952 to 2022. That is a "generation" as defined in Psalms and according to Psalms it is also the "terminal generation", the generation that saw Israel restored as a nation. This brings up a very interesting point that must be addressed before we even examine this. Many Bible expositors say that Jerusalem is God's clock concerning prophecy. What they are saying is that you can look at Jerusalem to see what time it is on God's clock. However what we are now seeing is a much more complicated picture of wheels within wheels, just like the inner workings of a watch. Jacob's trouble is ten years, the 70th week is 7 years, there are prophecies concerning Israel and Jerusalem being worked out, but there are also prophecies concerning the world and the Gentiles being worked out. God desires all men to be saved, not just the Jews.

So then let's consider this reign of Queen Elizabeth, why would this be Biblical and prophetic? There are other kings and queens, though to be fair I can't name any of them by name. Queen Elizabeth was one of the most famous people in the world, the whole world watched her coronation on TV, a first, they watched Charles marriage to Diana on TV, and they watched her funeral on TV. Her reign has been a worldwide event. Also if the US is the "Great Babylon" consider this verse:

Revelation 17:5 and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth.

Revelation 17 is clear referring to the Vatican and the Anglican church is clearly a daughter of the Vatican. Queen Elizabeth is a product of the Anglican church.

Now consider Ezekiel 16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

If you look at the story of Queen Mary (grandmother of Elizabeth) with her son Edward, and then see what happened between Elizabeth and Margaret, as well as Elizabeth and Diana and of course Charles and Harry it is quite obvious this parable is being played out before our eyes with this royal family.

This age is all about Jesus, king of kings and Lord of lords, and all these other pretenders to the throne are simply man's attempt to rule himself according to his own opinion. John said that there are many antichrists, many counterfeit Christ's.

So then September 19, 2022 was the end of this marriage feast, that is Queen Elizabeth's funeral, one week prior to the feast of trumpets. If you were watching for the Lord's return and opened to him immediately at this time you have been treated to a feast in the word of God. The new revelation and new light we have seen in the last six months is fantastic.
 

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https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/catholic/st-malachys-prophecy-of-the-popes-explained.aspx


The Prophecy of the Popes is a series of 112 short, cryptic phrases in Latin which predict the future of the Catholic popes.

Published in 1595, the book begins with Celestine II and says the Catholic Church will have 112 popes in total before the church ends.

“In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End,” the 112th prophecy says.


https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/12/...ion-for-2023-as-malachys-prophecy-resurfaces/
 

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Every day looks more and more like a horror film

 

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Longing to see thee

2Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supplications, night and day 4 longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

This is how I feel about the apostles. I long to see Paul and John and James. I remember these brothers every day as I read the word. Think of how joyful it will be to be reunited with all these brothers who have meant so much to our Christian life.

5 having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in thee; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in thee also.

How wonderful that this story is not about some spiritual giant two thousand years ago but rather about the faith that has been passed down from generation to generation and dwells in us just as it did them.

6 For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands.

We are on the same team. Paul is depending on us now. He did his job in the first quarter but now we are in the last two minutes of the game and it is up to us.

7 For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Instead of fear we have the power to run over, through and upon the enemy. We have the love to care for one another when things become horrible and we need the discipline to be in the word and prayer every day.

8 Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;

We all know there are "blue sky" Christians. There are those who begin making excuses and rejecting the word of God as soon as they see any hardship. But when the game is over I am hoping my uniform is covered in mud. Yes, I know we need to have spotless white robes for the wedding, but your feet are shod with the gospel and it is your feet that need to be washed.

9 who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Isn't that awesome? The world may look at you and see a failure, a ne'er do well, but the Lord chose you according to His purpose and grace. He has a position for you, a role for you to fill, and He has the grace to make it happen.

10 but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,


The whole world is walking in death. Why is drug use so high and suicides so high? It is a cess pool of sin and despair and death. The good news is when you shine that light on that shows people how to get out of that cess pool, they can see light, they can see immortality filled with joy and hope.

11 whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher. 12 For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.

The world is filled with liars, thieves and murderers. People thought their money in the banks was safe, nope, thieves have broken through. The thieves are running this asylum now and have figured out that they can rob the banks by simply printing money. By comparison consider the Bible, a safe investment for two thousand years. The word has been kept, guarded all this time. Whatever you invest in heaven is safe from thieves and murderers. All of us have been appointed witnesses of the Lord and if we appreciate our calling we wouldn't mind suffering the minor irritations that we will see in this brief life.

13 Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 14 That good thing which was committed unto thee guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.


There are a lot of patterns these days, most are not sound words. But the Bible, and more specifically the New Testament, and even more specifically, the epistles of Paul are a pattern of sound words. Let's keep that pattern and let's make the Holy Spirit who dwells in us comfortable.
 

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This Week Will Be Huge!

 

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He says something interesting, which is the crucial point of each chapter is the central word of that chapter. So I checked 5 chapters in Luke, 1-4 and then 21 (the chapter about when will all these things be).

Luke 1 — be called

Luke 2 — consolation of Israel

Luke 3 — the wheat into His garner but the chaff burn up

Luke 4 — I say unto you (no prophet is acceptable in his own country)


Luke 21 — Flee unto
 

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The central words to the book of Philemon are "He might minister".

The central words to the book of Jude is "These are they who are hidden rocks"
 

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The Central words

The central words to the book of 2 Jn is “many deceivers are gone forth”

The central words to the book of 3 Jn is “who loves to have the preeminence among them”

The central words to the book of 2Timothy “a vessel unto honor, sanctified”
 

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The Central Words

The central point of 2 Thessalonians is “whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish”

The central point of Titus is “in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, 8 sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.”
 

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Luke 22:31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat:

This word is only in Luke. If Luke is a reference to the pre 70th week rapture and Simon represents the left behind saints, then this term "sift you as wheat" indicates the persecution and tribulation the saints will receive during the 70th week. Therefore, if the saints in the 70th week refers to wheat the "pre tribulation" saints would refer to barley, the firstfruits.

Now, if the raptured saints refer to the harvest of the barley, that has to take place prior to the feast of unleavened bread and first fruits. It would also seem that the harvest would take place before you have this big Passover festival as the men would need to first bring in the harvest before going up to Jerusalem.
 

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Do not be dismayed by AI

Joshua 8:1 And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land; 2 and thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: set thee an ambush for the city behind it.

Jericho was shut up with a wall, it was like Facebook, Twitter and all the other tech giants trying to censor the truth. After taking down these censors, fact checkers, claims of misinformation, and all the rest. The next enemy will be AI.
 

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Romans 10:1-17 -- Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God

10 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.


This chapter presents the way of salvation and it begins with the example of the Jewish people. So learn from them, they sought to establish their own righteousness and did not submit to God’s righteousness. If you are zealous for God that is great, but your zealousness needs to be based on a knowledge of Jesus Christ, the righteousness of God. You cannot possibly understand the law unless you know Christ, He is the culmination of the law. What the Lord has done is for everyone who believes, that we may be righteous in Jesus.

5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.” 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

There are two very different approaches to righteousness with God. In one approach you are assembling a bunch of rules on how you must live in order to establish your own righteousness. In the second approach you are rebuked from this approach. It isn’t about you climbing some mountain, or descending into some pit, Jesus has already been crucified, died and resurrected. Righteousness by faith is not about you doing anything but rather you receive in your heart that God has raised Jesus from the dead. If that word is in your heart then the word “Jesus is Lord” will bubble up within you. You don’t need to hope to fulfill some requirements to be righteous and be saved. No, if you believe that God has already raised Jesus from the dead and if you testify that Jesus is Lord with your own mouth, then you will be saved. It is a promise that you can take to the judgement seat of Christ.

10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

We all have experiences where we were put to shame. What happened? I had an experience where the Lord told me to speak something but I refused. Had I not rejected that word but been faithful to speak it as told I would not have been put to shame. Let me use a more worldly example to help people understand this. During a Superbowl, the championship game in the NFL, the entire game had come down to this last few plays. Seattle had the ball on the goal line. If they score they win. The quarterback threw the ball and the defensive back made a truly great play to intercept that ball. This player was a rookie. A few days before the Superbowl they had been in practice and they had been running that exact same play in practice and the coach had been on him about how he was to defend it. He hadn’t done it in practice but here in the game he won the game for them. You take that word, you believe it, you receive it in your heart, and then you act on it. If you do that you will be saved.

12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Stop looking at yourself! You have way too high an opinion of yourself. Your salvation is not dependent on who you are, or who your parents are, or your culture, or what clothes you wear, what songs you like. We are all different, but that does not matter, it is the same Lord who is Lord of all. He is Lord of the kid in the gang, or who grew up on the street or the one with the trust fund. Jesus is the one who richly blesses all who call on Him. If salvation was of you, then you would be the one who would be glorified. Salvation is of Jesus, He is the one who is glorified.

14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

This is the part that we can play. We have nothing to do with our own salvation, but we can play a role in bringing the good news to others. Do you want to hear the word of God? Do you want to instill faith in others? Do you want to be a “sent one”, an ambassador of the gospel? That is what you are and what you are doing when you share the good news that Jesus is Lord and that God has raised Him from the dead with others.

16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

What a great revelation. ‘My faith is so weak, so small, I wish I was strong in the faith but I am not.’ Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. If you feel you are weak in the faith then the real problem is that you are not in the word of God. If you are physically weak, then go to the gym. Read the Bible, pray over the Bible, listen to sermons, fellowship with others, sing hymns and songs of worship. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
 

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He feels that Passover is a rapture scenario, I don't agree, I think Passover is something the Lord did for us, we had nothing to do with. The reason that all the people came out with palm branches as He entered Jerusalem is because He raised Lazarus from the dead.

Everyone knows the day and even the hour that the Passover is killed. Does anyone know the day that Lazarus was raised? How about the hour?

Raising Lazarus is crucial for the Passover because it demonstrates to the believers that Jesus is the one with the resurrection life.

Instead of focusing so much on the rapture, think about God saving all men. If you consider that God's goal is to save all men then the rapture prior to the Passover makes sense and the Passover beginning the 70th week makes sense. The 70th week is not about judgment, it is about repenting for sins, it is about repenting for unbelief, it is about seeing a revelation of Jesus Christ, king of kings who came to save us. The Jews look on Him whom they pierced, well so do the left behinds saints.
 

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How the mighty have fallen


Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.

Zechariah 1:3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.

Zephaniah 3:6 I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

Ezekiel 12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.